Mountain Streams Radio

07/11/2025

Mountain Streams Radio hopes you'll tune in to The Saturday Light Brigade -- LIVE -- from 6 am to noon Saturday (7/12) for original puzzles, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and more.

Pop Quiz:
DARE is an example of a 4-letter word that has at least two 4-letter words as anagrams (DEAR and READ). Another example is DIET which has three 4-letter anagrams (EDIT, TIDE, and TIED). Can you come up with five more 4-letter words that have at least two 4-letter anagrams? Share your answer by email at [email protected] or text at 412.200.5975.

This week's (7/12) program includes these special features and guests:

8:20 am -- Kelsey Ford with information on the Handmade Arcade Youth Maker Program

10:05 am -- Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair honoree Ayana Singh (9th grade, North Allegheny) discussing her award-winning work to develop innovative tools supporting individuals with autism

10:35 am -- Sophie O'Toole (11th grade, Keystone Oaks), Sedona Greene (10th grade, Trinity Christian School), Aidan Graham (10th grade, Pittsburgh Sci-Tech), Trysta Fields (12th, Pittsburgh Obama), and Jacob Fischbach (12th grade, Pittsburgh CAPA) sharing their experiences participating in the University of Pittsburgh Gene Team Summer Program

11:05 am -- An acoustic set with Aliquid Novi featuring Adam Levine (acoustic guitar, vocals) and Deb Cook (vocals)

07/11/2025

Please join us for Paint Night!

06/27/2025

Listen to the Saturday Light Brigade, live, from 6am to noon tomorrow, Saturday, on Mountain Streams Radio - 102.9FM, mountainstreamsradio.org, or by asking "Alexa, play Mountain Streams Radio".

This week's Pop Quiz: The SLB playground is filled with bicycles and tricycles! There are exactly 25 vehicles and 57 wheels. How many of each kind of cycle are there?

We hope you'll tune in to The Saturday Light Brigade from 6 am to noon Eastern this Saturday through our network of radio and online stations for original puzzles, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and more. This week's program includes these special features and guests:

8:20 am -- Shelli Luchs discussing the Allegheny County Music Festival, a concert benefiting youth served through the Department of Human Services, 6/29, Hartwood Acres Park Amphitheater

10:05 am -- Pittsburgh Westinghouse Academy students Jaziah Mason (10th grade) and Kamarie Dawkins (11th grade) talking about their recent success in the Build Pittsburgh 2025 Southwestern PA Youth Pitch Competition

10:35 am -- Wi******er Thurston 12th graders and co-editors-in-chief, Quincy Sauter and Martha Pitard on Gold Rush Zine

11:05 am -- Old-time music with the Snappin' Bug Stringband, featuring Mark Tamsula (fiddle), Richard Withers (banjo and fife), Barbara Rosner (bass), and Dave Krysty (guitar)

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05/23/2025

MCHS Annual Meeting - Wednesday, June 4th, 6:30pm @ the MCHS Museum (253 Carskadon Lane, Keyser). All invited!! Light refreshments/dessert.

05/23/2025

05/23/2025

Mineral County participated in the the USA Today Travel Guide: Northeast GO Escape. If you'd like a copy of the travel guide, stop by the Mineral County Welcome Center, 167 S Mineral Street, Keyser.

05/23/2025

Tune into Mountain Streams Radio (102.9FM, MountainStreamsRadio.org, or ask Alexa to play) Saturday morning from 6am to noon, to listen to The Saturday Morning Light Brigade streaming from Pittsburgh, PA for original puzzles, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and more.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Pop Quiz: BLACK is a 5-letter word that starts with B and ends in K. Can you think of five more? How about 10? Each of your words must be exactly five letters long. Share your answers by email or text at [email protected] or 412.200.5975.

This week's program includes these special features and guests:

10:05 am -- Arturo Gromo (12th grade, Baldwin), Minji Kim (12th grade, Sewickley Academy), Nia Nadipalli (12th grade, Pine-Richland), Songhyeon Kim (10th grade, North Allegheny), and Emma Ehan (11th grade, Sewickley Academy) from the Phipps Conservatory Youth Climate Advocacy Committee on the development, implementation, and progress of their environment-related projects within the Pittsburgh community

10:35 am -- Abbie Segal (18, Peters Township), Alexander Segal (16, Peters Township), Molly Barry (16, Peters Township), and Riya Pasrija (16, North Allegheny) sharing what they learned about poverty and ideas to reduce it based on their experiences in a poverty simulation project.

11:05 am -- Music and conversation with singer/songwriter Cody Piper

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05/02/2025

Saturday Light Brigade broadcasting live on Mountain Streams Radio Saturday, 6am to noon. See Schedule below.

Pop Quiz: Name five things you can read that start with the letter S. Share your answers by email or text at [email protected] or 412.200.5975.

On the radio on 5/3:
We hope you'll tune in to The Saturday Light Brigade from 6 am to noon Eastern this Saturday through our network of radio, television, and online stations for original puzzles, folk, jazz, bluegrass, and more as well as these special features:

7:50 am -- Martha Terry with information on the Friendship, Flower, and Folk Festival at Baum Grove, 5/10, (11 am to 4 pm) Friendship

8:20 am -- L. E. McCullough with information on a reading of his play Freedom House: Giving Life a Second Chance, dramatizing the 1967 creation of Freedom House Ambulance Service, the first mobile emergency medical unit in the U.S. staffed by professionally-trained paramedics, 5/5 (7 pm), New Hazlett Theater

9:00 am -- From our Herbs In Action podcast series, Camille DeSisto, studying at Duke University, talks about her work with and observations of musa. This series is made possible by the Mary Jane Berger Foundation, devoted to the use and enjoyment of herbs

10:05 am -- South Hills Children's Choir and accompanist Laura Rogers in advance of their spring concert Carpe Diem, Unity Presbyterian Church, 5/16 (7 pm)

10:35 am -- Band of Steel first robotics team members Benjamin Feath (7th grade, Ryan Gloyer Middle School), Saketh Veeramachaneni (6th grade, Sewickley Academy), Ethan Murick (8th grade, Ingomar Middle School), Oliver Hagerty (7th grade, Ingomar Middle School), Zilin Liu (8th grade, Wi******er Thurston), and Luke Challinor (8th grade, North Allegheny) on their project designed to educate young people on ocean health

11:05 am -- Music and conversation with classical guitarist and composer Damon Buxton

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04/03/2025

03/19/2025

The spring meeting of the WV Chapter of The American Chestnut
Foundation will be held:

When: Saturday, April 5
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Where: Mineral County Technical Center in Keyser, WV
(981 Harley O Staggers Drive, Keyser).

There will be a brief business meeting for board members from
12:30 to 1:00 pm. Remote access will be available, and the information to do so will be sent by email before the meeting.

Directions to the Mineral County Technical Center: The Technical
Center is between and behind the primary and middle schools
across from McDonald’s, just south of Keyser on US 220. At the
light on US 220 just south of McDonald’s, go east on Southern
drive to the back of the school, then north on Water Street. The
Technical Center is on the left and parking is available just past the entrance.

Facebook: www.Facebook.com/WVTACF
Website: www.tacf.org/wv

03/14/2025

MINERAL COUNTY PHOTO CONTEST

What is your favorite part of Mineral County? Do you have a stunning photo to share? Now's your chance to shine! Enter our photo contest for a chance to be featured in a future advertising campaign or the 2025 Mineral County Travel Guide. Click here to upload: https://shrpa.com/upload/mineralcowv/bestofmineralcounty